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Posted on 09/11/2007 7:12:14 AM PDT by claudiustg
You have to hand it to President Bush — he is persistent.
The Iraq war would be a good case of persistence, if not exactly a good war. But let’s not get distracted by that war this week as there are many more examples of Bush’s persistence which don’t carry the emotional baggage of Iraq.
Without taking time to analyze each and every one of them, there were the nomination of Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court, the proposal to turn U.S. port security over to the Mideast city-state of Dubai, the dogged loyalty to Donald Rumsfeld and Alberto Gonzales, and the two failed efforts at “comprehensive immigration reform.”
To those we may now add the president’s continuing effort to break down the borders of the nation anyway he can.
I have already in this column written extensively on the foolishness of an open border with Mexico, the cupidity of the proposed North American Union, and the absurdity of putting Arabs in charge of shipping through U.S. ports.
But last week, with hardly anyone noticing, the president took another shot at chipping away at American sovereignty by opening our southern border to Mexican trucking firms in a pilot program that he clearly wants to expand quickly.
According to the Associated Press, “The U.S. plans to give as many as 25 Mexican firms permission [to haul their cargo anywhere in the United States] by the end of September and add another 25 companies each month until hitting 100 by the end of this year under the one-year program.”
(Excerpt) Read more at dailyinterlake.com ...
Not only that, but a sizable piece of our port traffic will shift to Mexico as well. We will lose jobs in our ports and railyards as well as trucking jobs.
Besides that, all of the extra traffic at borders will make it infinitely easier to smuggle in any kind of drugs, contraband or terrorist materials. The captain of a ship worth millions of dollars may be reluctant to haul contraband, but Mexico is filled with millions of desperate folk who would gladly do so for a couple hundred bucks. Nobody is naiive enough to believe that the accountability for a lowly Mexican trucker’s actions will flow up to hurt his parent company.
I didn't dispute the facts, nor did I get emotional. I merely pointed you out for the pathological liar you are. You know very well nobody is going to make certain that Mexican truck drivers speak English. In fact, all you've really "proven" is that the government has no intention of abiding by the law when it comes to subsidizing "free" trade.
You’re going to see cut rate trucking companies not obeying the time restrictions put on American truckers. And you’re also going to see a lot of shipping directly to Mexico because their dock workers will work for slave wages.
Have you read Toynbee?
1. Writer claims A; "there is no requirement."That does not make me a "liar," you petulant child.
2. B is true; "there is a requirement."
Exits have been numbered since the beginning of the Interstate Highway System (except California which is only starting to number it's exits).
Some states are renumbering from exits numbered sequentially to a system where exits are numbered by the nearest mile marker. The mile marker system has been used by most states since the inception of the Interstate Highway System.
Exit numbers have NOTHING to do with language. Spanish Speakers can read a proper name written in English as easily as an English speaker can read a proper name written in Spanish.
False. Maybe where you are, but I've seen such outside California.
Some states are renumbering from exits numbered sequentially to a system where exits are numbered by the nearest mile marker.
That doesn't matter as long as the Mexicans can read the numbers.
The mile marker system has been used by most states since the inception of the Interstate Highway System.
No argument there, but I never said anything about that.
Exit numbers have NOTHING to do with language. Spanish Speakers can read a proper name written in English as easily as an English speaker can read a proper name written in Spanish.
That's just plain hooey. Changing signs isn't cheap, especially when the pavement is crumbling in front of them. Thus the change is a matter of signs having priority over pavement, which should tell you something. A trucker can easily get WAY lost once off the interstate. Thus exit numbers that reduce ambiguity to a foreign trucker are of major benefit.
Then there’s the cost of keeping the National Guard at every truck stop and protecting Mexican trucks out in the wide open America, presuming American truckers don’t take the impoverishment of their families as just the price for getting along.
“You’re going to see cut rate trucking companies not obeying the time restrictions put on American truckers. And you’re also going to see a lot of shipping directly to Mexico because their dock workers will work for slave wages.”
Expect to see an independent truckers strike at the same time as a Teamsters strike. Throw in a few striking dock & rail workers and things will get real interesting.
*yawn*
Already familiar with it, I see.
You are 1rudeboy
There can be only 1!
“An independent / Teamsters strike would cause problems, but it wouldn’t shut things down enough to get the point across.”
I dunno. Around here the last independent trucker’s strike stopped the log trucks, fuel trucks and coal trucks too. Anyone who broke solidarity was fair game to have their truck attacked. My brother in law had the windshield broken out of his log truck by a boulder rolled off of an overpass.
I would also expect 5 mph slowdowns on the interstates, union thugs burning trucks with Mexican tags, deliberate shortages to critical areas, etc.
Well said...I have been thinking about it lately on very similar terms.
It is an ironic thing, but it seems that the elites are overwhelmingly the enemies of the middle income people in this country. They live in their gated communities and use their money in every way to insulate themselves from the consequences of their "high moral" acts. They do not mix it up with illegals at Walmart or in the grocery stores of their neighborhoods -- those who themselves go to the grocery store. Their liberal politics have turned the public schools into a jungle...and they, of course, send their own kids to fancy private schools. (Even with all their advantages those kids need only be mediocre performers to get "legacy" slots at Harvard, Yale, and UVA, to name just a few prestiguous schools famous for their dull graduates from political families.)
And, of course, they never take the kids to McD's...the cook fixes them something or maybe their au pair takes them out for the occasional Happy Meal.
They definitely do not fear that fifteen people will move into the house next to them and park cars in the yard.
Most of this applies to RINOs like Bush just the same as it applies to Dems. The material conditions of these people's lives is assured...their splendid homes in extremely undiverse neighborhoods, their evenings at restaurants where they thoughtlessly drop a hundrd bucks for the entrée, and their vacations in luxury locations...again behind gates. (Illegals, of course, are very helpful in maintaining this lifestyle: manicuring their hedges, waxing their luxury cars, chauffering their rugrats to their fancy schools and tennis lessons, staffing all the resorts and restaurants where they pass their time, etc.)
But best of all for the elites, massive immigration is a TWOfer...no, a THREEfer! Not only do they have a serf class to wait on them, their investments prosper as the gush of cheap labor feeds the economy, but all of this gives them a smug satisfaction...they are helping brown people from a third-world country escape poverty.
These traitorous SOBs are also, of course, destroying the America that people of more moderate means live in. My fury at them...at practically the whole inside-the-beltway establishment...pols, journalists, K Street leeches...all of them....my fury is beyond words. They deserve no better treatment that traitors received in rougher times.
(I don't mean this to sound like an anti-capitalist screed. I am free market all the way and don't begrudge anyone a luxurious life that he has earned. But if he is proping it up with the sellout of the country...well, I'd like to put him on trial.)
“It is an ironic thing, but it seems that the elites are overwhelmingly the enemies of the middle income people in this country. They live in their gated communities and use their money in every way to insulate themselves from the consequences of their “high moral” acts. They do not mix it up with illegals at Walmart or in the grocery stores of their neighborhoods — those who themselves go to the grocery store. Their liberal politics have turned the public schools into a jungle...and they, of course, send their own kids to fancy private schools. (Even with all their advantages those kids need only be mediocre performers to get “legacy” slots at Harvard, Yale, and UVA, to name just a few prestiguous schools famous for their dull graduates from political families.)
And, of course, they never take the kids to McD’s...the cook fixes them something or maybe their au pair takes them out for the occasional Happy Meal.
They definitely do not fear that fifteen people will move into the house next to them and park cars in the yard.
Most of this applies to RINOs like Bush just the same as it applies to Dems. The material conditions of these people’s lives is assured...their splendid homes in extremely undiverse neighborhoods, their evenings at restaurants where they thoughtlessly drop a hundrd bucks for the entrée, and their vacations in luxury locations...again behind gates. (Illegals, of course, are very helpful in maintaining this lifestyle: manicuring their hedges, waxing their luxury cars, chauffering their rugrats to their fancy schools and tennis lessons, staffing all the resorts and restaurants where they pass their time, etc.)
But best of all for the elites, massive immigration is a TWOfer...no, a THREEfer! Not only do they have a serf class to wait on them, their investments prosper as the gush of cheap labor feeds the economy, but all of this gives them a smug satisfaction...they are helping brown people from a third-world country escape poverty.
These traitorous SOBs are also, of course, destroying the America that people of more moderate means live in. My fury at them...at practically the whole inside-the-beltway establishment...pols, journalists, K Street leeches...all of them....my fury is beyond words. They deserve no better treatment that traitors received in rougher times.
(I don’t mean this to sound like an anti-capitalist screed. I am free market all the way and don’t begrudge anyone a luxurious life that he has earned. But if he is proping it up with the sellout of the country...well, I’d like to put him on trial.)”
Excellent description of what is happening!
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